Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — GOOD ROADS IN NEW JERSEY [ARTICLE]

GOOD ROADS IN NEW JERSEY

State Has Standardized Upon Concrete Construction —Will Build Nothing £lse In, Future. e W. D. Thompson, acting highway engineer of New Jersey, says the ma-cadam-surfaced Lincoln highway in New Jersey has been seen to rapidly disintegrate and fall away under the terrific strain Imposed upon the road by the heavy motortrucks now traveling it day and night. New Jersey has standardized upon concrete construction and hereafter will build nothing else on its main routes of travel. Future building will be of concrete of a minimum width of 18 feet with a foot penetration shoulder on each side and laid upon nothing less than a 30-foot right of way. Two miles of such construction are now being completed upon the Lincoln highway in New Jersey, near Iselin, the cost of which will be $146,000, indicating in no small measure the ideas of the New Jersey commissioners that a heavy initial expense is, in fact, economy in the long run.